Table 5.
Comparison of women in the 1973-1978 cohort of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health who responded to survey 6 in 2012 and survey 7 in 2015 (N=6567), according to their modes of survey completion.
| Characteristics | Online/online (n=3189a,b), n (%) | Online/paper (n=963b), n (%) | Paper/online (n=1007c,b), n (%) | Paper/paper (n=1408b), n (%) | |
| Area of residence | |||||
| Major city | 1917 (64.68) | 539 (57.16) | 543 (54.96) | 749 (53.92) | |
| Inner regional | 701 (23.65) | 261 (27.68) | 272 (27.53) | 397 (28.58) | |
| Outer regional | 289 (9.75) | 132 (14.00) | 147 (14.88) | 217 (15.62) | |
| Remote/very remote | 57 (1.92) | 11 (1.17) | 26 (2.63) | 26 (1.87) | |
| Educational qualifications | |||||
| School certificate or less | 108 (3.41) | 44 (4.64) | 50 (5.04) | 127 (9.20) | |
| Higher school certificate | 297 (9.39) | 110 (11.59) | 118 (11.88) | 200 (14.49) | |
| Trade certificate/diploma | 786 (24.84) | 257 (27.08) | 263 (26.49) | 418 (30.29) | |
| University degree | 1973 (62.36) | 538 (56.69) | 562 (56.60) | 635 (46.01) | |
| Marital status | |||||
| Partnered | 2493 (78.79) | 785 (82.72) | 808 (80.24) | 1078 (76.95) | |
| Not partnered | 671 (21.21) | 164 (17.28) | 199 (19.76) | 323 (23.05) | |
| Work | |||||
| Full-time | 1429 (45.15) | 368 (38.78) | 389 (38.71) | 493 (35.09) | |
| Part-time | 1189 (37.57) | 414 (43.62) | 432 (42.99) | 626 (44.56) | |
| Not working | 547 (17.28) | 167 (17.60) | 184 (18.31) | 286 (20.36) | |
| Smoking | |||||
| Never smoked | 2008 (63.32) | 601 (62.93) | 635 (63.18) | 855 (60.85) | |
| Former smoker | 875 (27.59) | 272 (28.48) | 265 (26.37) | 353 (25.12) | |
| Current smoker | 288 (9.08) | 82 (8.59) | 105 (10.45) | 197 (14.02) | |
| Alcohol consumption | |||||
| Nondrinker | 330 (10.41) | 102 (10.68) | 115 (11.44) | 209 (14.98) | |
| Low-risk/rarely drinks | 2697 (85.08) | 804 (84.19) | 859 (85.47) | 1127 (80.79) | |
| Risky drinker | 143 (4.51) | 49 (5.13) | 31 (3.08) | 59 (4.23) | |
| General health | |||||
| Excellent/very good | 1979 (62.21) | 600 (62.50) | 593 (58.95) | 818 (58.18) | |
| Good | 943 (29.64) | 284 (29.58) | 323 (32.11) | 465 (33.07) | |
| Fair/poor | 259 (8.14) | 76 (7.92) | 90 (8.95) | 123 (8.75) | |
aThere were 9 women who responded online to both surveys who were not included in Table 5 because it was not possible to know if they had used a computer, tablet, or phone on survey 7.
bNot all women responded to survey.
cThere was 1 woman who used paper on survey 6 and responded online on survey 7 who was not included in Table 5 because it was not possible to know if she had used a computer, tablet, or phone in survey 7.